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Pictured: Students from Charters with Mr Richard Pilgrim (Co-Headteacher), Mr Adam Afriye (MP for Windsor) and Mr Alan Carr (Development Ambassador at Charters School).
Conservative MP, Adam Afriyie, recently visited Charters School in Sunningdale to see how the PiXL Edge initiative is helping prepare students for life after they leave the school.
PiXL Edge is an innovative national framework for secondary schools and sixth form providers that is becoming increasingly well-known and respected around the country. Conceived and developed by Richard Pilgrim, Co-Headteacher at Charters School, the practical plan develops skills and attributes identified by employers as being important when students move into employment or further education within a validated qualification.
Mr Afriyie met with Mr Pilgrim to discuss the benefits of PiXL Edge at Charters School and was joined by Sixth Form PiXL Edge graduates and apprentices from the Lower School to see first-hand how they are working to develop the attributes valued by employers; “soft skills” are reportedly worth an estimated £88bn to the UK economy. Mr Afryie, was so impressed with the scheme’s potential to be transformational, that he has kindly arranged to sponsor an event to be held at The House of Commons in the autumn.